Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)

Julia Ward Howe, poet, writer, and women's suffrage leader, is well known as author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" (1861), but her greatest contributions lay in women's rights. Married to Samuel Gridley Howe, she published her first two works of poetry anonymously. After his death, she founded women's groups across the United States. Howe was the first woman to be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.